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According to the Department of Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (DEFRA), statistical information released on 5th July 2004 and relevant to January 2004: 695,619 Hectares of agricultural land in the UK was either Organic or in-conversion (excluding common grazing), representing 4% of the total available.
Of this land, 86% was used for permanent & temporary pasture.
6% was used for cereals production.
3% was used for the production of other, unspecified crops.
2% was used for vegetable production.
And 0.22% was used for fruit & nut production.
With regards to lifestock, an estimated 27,466 beef cattle were being organically reared, as were 90,143 dairy cows.
There were 1,420,555 organic laying hens in the UK.
As far as regions were concerned:
6.7% of agricultural land in Scotland was in use organically.
The South West region was the proportionally the highest in England with 5.4% organic land.
The lowest included Yorkshire & Humberside, and Eastern England, both regions with 0.9% of land in Organic use.
Wales yielded 4%.
Northern Ireland had 0.5% organically used land.
In their Organic Food & Farming Report of 2004, the Soil Association reported retail sales of organic food were growing at twice the rate of non-organic, increasing by £ 2m per week, and total sales were £ 1.12 Billion.
According to Organic Farmers & Growers in their National Benchmark Survey of Organic Food Production, published August 2004, from a sample of 1,144 registered organic farmers who responded to the survey, the following was reported:-
4% described their business profitability as healthy.
21% described it as moderate.
33% described it as low.
30% described it as borderline.
12% described it as unviable.
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